Business Analyst Resume
NJ
SUMMARY
- Experienced in Business Systems Analyst and Quality Analyst with strong understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis.
- Expert in software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications under Agile and complete SDLC.
- Exposure to software development methodologies such as Agile, waterfall, RUP
- Experience in RACI Analysis, PESTLE Analysis, MOST Analysis, SWOT Analysis, CATWOE analysis, Gap Analysis and understanding Cost - Benefit Analysis.
- Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document BRD, Use Case Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications FRS, Workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
- Experienced in testing client server and web based applications using HP tools like Quality center (QC).
- Expertise in Functional testing, Manual Testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), System testing, Integration testing, Black Box Testing and implementation of Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Summary Reports.
- Strong problem-solving skills, extremely reliable, quick learner and able to work independently as well as a team member.
- Extensive knowledge in Analyzing and studying the existing Business processes.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Web Technologies: HTML, XML
Programming Languages: C, Java, C++, Python, SQL
Databases: My SQL, Oracle SQL Developer
Defect Management Tool: Quality Center
Data Warehousing Tools: SQL Server Integration Services
Methodologies: SDLC, Agile
Analytic Tools: Tableau, MS Excel (Pivot Tables\Charts), Microsoft share point.
Operating Systems: Widows, Linux
Development Tools: SharePoint, Git, Jenkins
Modeling Tools & Languages: Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Hackensack, NJ
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys.
- Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to resolve urgent issue relating to requirement that were scheduled for the next release.
- Worked with the different business units to understand the current business flow.
- Facilitated all aspects of the scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, daily scrums, product demos, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Provided support to product owner in developing, maintaining and grooming product backlog.
- Worked with business users to prepare and update the Business Requirement Documents(BRD), User Stories and Business process flow documents.
- Used UML to create Use Case diagrams for requirements.
- Scheduled meetings with developers, SAs (System Analyst) and Testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project.
- Worked with MS SQL to extract data understood data schemas and relational data tables in data warehouse.
- Conducted UAT and coordinated with the QA Team in the sign-off process before deployment.
- Assisted the Project Manager in creating the User Manual Documentation.
Environment: Agile/Scrum, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Access, MS Outlook, JIRA, UML, HP Quality Center, SQL, FRD, BRD.
Confidential
BA/QA
Responsibilities:
- Elicit all business and functional requirements and documented them.
- Created artifacts such as Use Cases, Activity, and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
- Conducted JAD sessions for the requirement gathering.
- Test case creation and test cases documentation and UAT.
- Worked on creating report with Business Owners, Development and QA Team.
- Monitored project progress and project dispute management.
- Worked under the Agile Environment with the scrum process attending daily scrum calls.
- Participated in cross-functional teams to develop new or enhanced systems/processes/ policies/ or programs to support business needs.
- Analyze the user friendliness, navigability of websites and apps.
- Tested prototype websites, software, or apps in my area of knowledge and expertise.
- Experienced in writing test cases, test scripts, and execution of test cases reporting and documenting the test results using Quality Center.
- Planned, developed and conducted system, functional and integration testing.
- Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected results and maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center.
- Documented the defects in Quality Center and assigned them to relevant developer.
- Executed SQL queries to verify the database for the relevant test cases.
- Interacted with the respective developers to explain the testing issues on behalf of the testing team and managed the entire testing effort.
Environment: Agile (Scrum), MS Project, MS Visio, SQL, SharePoint, Quality Center
